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ˈsodbuster Western N. Amer.
[f. sod n.1 + buster.]
A term, chiefly opprobrious, for a farmer, farmworker, or homesteader in a cattle-grazing region, esp. one who ploughs virgin grassland. Hence ˈsodbusting vbl. n., ploughing virgin grassland; farming.
1922R. Stead Neighbours 126 Between your fine words I figger that you pick up a dollar now an' again by tottin' these tenderfoot sod-busters out over the bald-headed. 1927C. Sandburg Amer. Songbag 89 Its tune was familiar to the lonely ‘sodbuster’. 1958H. B. Allen in Publ. Amer. Dialect Soc. xxx. 11 The persistence of sodbuster and soddy as not necessarily opprobrious designations of the new settlers [in North Dakota]. 1965G. Shepherd West of Yesterday x. 72 We owned cows and found that ranching was more attractive than sodbusting. 1970[see nester 2]. 1972G. Beine Land of Coyote 85 (heading) Sod busting a new field. 1979Guardian 24 Mar. 12/1 The conflicts between sodbusters and cattle⁓men. |